Washing-machine



(No Model.)

R. LYNN, Sr.

WASHING MACHINE.

Patented Sept. 2.2, 1885.

JJZ'

d? INVENTOR Among .t E N u w N. PEYERS. Phumuuwgnpmr, washinmm D. c.

PATENT ROBERT LYNN, SR., OF PLEASANT PLAIN, IO\VA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Application filed December 31, 1884.

QPECIFIJATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,913, datedSeptember 22, 1885.

(No model.)

To @ZZ 21177/0711 it may conccrnf Be it known that I, ROBERT LYNN, Sr.,a citizen of the United States, residing at Pleasant Plain, in thecounty of Jefferson and State of Iowa, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in VashinghIachines, of which the 'following is adescription.

This invention relates to that class of machines used for washingclothes, and it has for IO its object to provide a machine which may beplaced in a common tub and wash the clothes therein, or which may have atub of its own,

and to provide special means for continually dipping up water andpouring` it at the proper time or place upon the clothes.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination ofparts forming a Washing-machine, hereinafter described and claimed,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 isa front elevation of my invention shown in position for use in atub,which latter is shown in vertical section; and Fig. 2 is a verticaltransverse section of the same.

A represents a tub of any usual form to receive the clothes to bewashed.

B is the body of my machine, in the form of an inverted box-that is, abox placed with its open mouth downward, and provided with a door, C, atone of its vertical sides, hinged to swing downward, as shown in dottedlines, to rest on the edge of the tub, to serve as a table or board onwhich the clothes may be placed while examining` and arranging them. Thelower edge or open mouth of the body may rest directly on the clothes inthe tub D; but I prefer to provide the body with legs E, which may standon the inner bottom of the tub between the clothes.

F is a hollow cylinder longitudinally iluted on its exterior, andprovided with a shaft, G, which is journaled in bearings in the body B,and is provided with a crank, H, by means of which the cylinder may beWholly or partly revolved. The shaft G is extended from the side of thebody B enough to carry the crank outside the tub, where it may be freelyrevolved. The tub should be filled with water high enough to rise aboutthree inches upon 5o the cylinder.

J J are clothes-holders, consisting of wires or metallic rods bent attheir ends and hung into staples K, as bails, around the circumferenceof the cylinder. rIhe clothes, or some portion thereof, being trickedunder one of these bails, will be carried around with the revolvingcylinder and be brought in contact with the rubbers L. These rubbers areluted strips of tin, wood, or other material, secured in frames, whichare hung upon pivots M in the body B, to swing to and from the cylinder.

N N are springs which press the rubbers toward the cylinder and upon theclothes carried thereby to do the mechanical part of theclothesavashing. I locate one of the rubbers to extend into the waterbelow the level of the drinn, and the other above the axis thereof, inorder that the clothes may be rubbed both under water and out of water.T0 deliver water upon the clothes at the upper portion of the lowerrubber, and to cause the water to pass through the clothes while carriedon the cylinder, I provide the latter with a series of longitudinalslits, I, ahead of each of which I secure a bucket, Q, in a peculiarmanner, so that it will lie against the interior of the cylinder,excepting at its front side, which is left open as a delivery. The rearside of each bucket curves backward, as 8o shown, so as to guide thewater which falls from the next rear bucket out of the slit behind thisbucket.

Of course a special tub or box may be provided with this machine to holdthe water; 85 but I consider the machine to be practically completewithout such a box, because nearly every one who would need a washingmachine already has a tub with which my invention could be used, thussaving the extra 9o expense of a tub. It is not supposed that a flutedcylinder and iluted spring-rubbers are in themselves new. The box beingentirely open at its bottom, the corner of a sheet or other largearticle may be secured under a bail, while the body of the article isamong the clothes in the tub, and be wound upon the cylinder andsuliiciently rubbed; then it may be let off into the tub again byreversing the motion of the cylinder. roo

What I claim as my invention, and desire to forward side, substantiallyas `shown and desecure by Letters Patent, isscribed.

The combination, with a rotary cylinder having longitudinal slits in itsperiphery, of ROBERT LYNN SR' 5 buckets secured Within the cylinderadjacent Witnesses:

to and in front of the slits, and provided with THOMAS D. MCGLELLAN,backward-curved rear sides, and open at the H. J. COOK.

